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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventor:
Stephen John Gallagher, Methuen, MA (US);
Assignee:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3268 (2013.01); H04L 9/321 (2013.01); H04L 63/062 (2013.01); H04L 63/0823 (2013.01); H04L 63/1466 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computing machine creates a local certificate authority (CA) that has certificate signing authority, creates a certificate signing request (CSR) that includes data of a local service that is hosted by the computing machine, creates a service certificate for the local service using at least a portion of the data in the CSR, signs the service certificate using a private key of the local CA, and provides the service certificate to the local service. The private key is stored locally on the computing machine.